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NeoCon has served as the world’s leading platform and most important event of the year for the commercial interior design industry since 1969.

Save the date for NeoCon 2025
June 9-11
THE MART, Chicago

Register for NeoCon 2024 Virtual CEUs through September 13 

A launch pad for innovation, NeoCon offers ideas and introductions that shape the built environment today and into the future.
About NeoCon

The Forefront of Design

With nearly 1 million square feet of exhibition space, NeoCon features game-changing products and services from more than 400 leading companies and emerging players as well as industry partners — providing unparalleled access to the latest and most innovative solutions in commercial design.

Congratulations to the Best of NeoCon 2024 Winners!

Best of NeoCon Awards 2024

NeoCon was thrilled to unveil the winners of the 33rd edition of the highly coveted Best of NeoCon Awards. Congratulations to all the winners!

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Best of Competition: Yinka Ilori x Momentum

Best of NeoCon 2024 Best of Competition Winner

Congratulations Momentum Textiles & Wallcovering! A Gold winner for Wall Treatments, Yinka Ilori x Momentum took home the award for best overall product this year.

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Exhibitor Spotlight

With links to the sea and sky, blue speaks to the increasing interest in bringing the outdoors in. As color theorists suggest, blue shades evoke clarity and increased intuition—it’s a natural fit for the workspace, where employers are seeking to encourage creativity and harmonious collaboration.

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Exhibitor Spotlight - Mizetto

Mizetto is excited to mark a company milestone with the opening of their permanent showroom on the 3rd floor of THE MART this June! The Swedish brand’s playful, flexible, and accessible design offerings will be featured alongside an exhibit highlighting the importance of sustainability and several exciting new product introductions.

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Exhibitor Spotlight

In response to the dynamic shifts in office interiors and occupancy patterns, NeoCon exhibitors are showcasing the power of productivity pods. Catering to individual needs, these compact designs promote privacy, concentration, and enhanced productivity, while larger structures can meet ADA regulations and foster small group collaboration.

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Exhibitor Spotlight - Bulo

We're thrilled to welcome Bulo to THE MART and to the United States! The 10th floor showroom, designed in collaboration with Gary Lee Partners, promises to impress with their latest range of collections and collaborations.

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Exhibitor Spotlight

The #BestofNeoCon2024 submissions are ramping up! Here’s a sneak peek of some of this year’s entrants—from acoustics to seating, these soft, earthy hues go a long way in establishing calm and sophisticated environments.

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Exhibitor Spotlight - Fomcore

Fomcore will make its NeoCon debut this June, opening its first dedicated showroom on the 10th floor of THE MART! The soft seating specialist will launch new products in the K-12 space designed to encourage play-based learning, hands-on education, and student agency in the classroom.

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Inspiration and Knowledge Sharing

In today’s rapidly changing world, there is certainly much to discuss, evaluate, and learn. NeoCon offers a compelling series of highly topical and inspirational programs led by global thought-leaders from diverse backgrounds, offering world-class expertise and insight into today’s most relevant topics.

Post-Show Virtual CEU Registration Open Through September 11

Register for Virtual CEUS

You can still register for over 50 NeoCon 2024 CEUs through September 11 and watch the CEUS on-demand through September 13.

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Keynote Bob Weis

Monday Keynote - Bob Weis, Global Entertainment Leader, Gensler

In his more than thirty years at Walt Disney Imagineering, Bob Weis created story-driven experiences in every Disney property around the world. In his keynote, Weis will share insights and visuals to demonstrate how the new global Gensler Entertainment practice is bringing storytelling to the forefront and strategy of new projects, engaging clients to think differently about how stories and experiences form valuable anchors in successful projects.

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Keynote Yinka Ilori - In conversation with Khoi Vo & Cheryl Durst

Tuesday Keynote - Yinka Ilori, British-Nigerian Multi-Disciplinary Artist and Designer

In an intimate “fireside chat” style keynote, Ilori will discuss how he harnesses diverse mediums of design as a catalyst to tell stories, using creativity as a language to celebrate cultural identities, and the power of design to elevate the individual while unifying the masses.

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Keynote - Ruth E. Carter

Wednesday Keynote - Ruth E. Carter, Two-Time Academy-Award Winning Costume Designer

Ruth E. Carter became the first Black woman to win an Oscar for Costume Design in 2019. In this keynote, one of the most sought-after costume designers on the globe takes us on a journey, from concept to creation, to design the Afrofuture and shares how the art of storytelling translates in costume design and the building of worlds.

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IIDA Collective Design LIVE: The Future of Experience - Upali Nanda, Global Practice Director, Research, and Partner HKS - Lauren Rottet, FIIDA, President and Founding Principal, Rottet Studios - Lori Mukoyama, IIDA, Global Leader of Hospitality and Principal, Gensler - Brian Graham, IIDA, Founder and Creative Director, Graham Design - Mark Bryan (Moderator), Senior Foresight Manager at Future Today Institute - Featured Presentations / Monday, June 10, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CDT - Presented by IIDA

Featured Presentation - IIDA Collective Design LIVE: The Future of Experience

How is experiential design changing the face of design at large, and how will experience intersect and empower the future of design and designers? IIDA’s once-a-year live episode of our Collective Design series brings you top minds in design who approach experiential design through a variety of lenses, from neuroscience to hospitality to future forecasting.

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Offices for the New Reality - Eva Greene, Director of Client Experience, Cresset Capital - Kate Davis, Global Practice Director, Commercial Interiors - Jason Hall, Creative Director, Charlie Green Studio - Sarah Silva, Vice President, Tenant Representation, JLL - Paul Tokarz, Partner, WestPoint Financial Group - Jan Parr (Moderator), Contributor, Crain's Chicago Business - Featured Presentations / Monday, June 10, 1:30 P.M. - 2:30 P.M. CDT - Presented by Crain's Chicago Business

Featured Presentation - Offices for the New Work Reality

Come hear from designers, executives in the trenches and leasing agents who have a bird’s-eye view into making (or remaking) spaces that reflect the nature of work today. Find out what has worked—and what hasn’t—in encouraging employees to come back to the office.

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Meet Us On Monday: IIDA's Celebration on the Grand Stair - Cheryl Durst, Hon. FIIDA, Executive Vice President and CEO, International Interior Design Association - Featured Presentations / Monday, June 10, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. CDT - Presented by IIDA

Featured Presentation - Meet Us On Monday: IIDA's Celebration on the Grand Stair

Join IIDA as we recognize design’s young talent on THE MART Grand Stair with a high-energy afternoon that will include a mini-documentary screening featuring IIDA’s Design Your World pathway program!

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Diversity in Practice - Jason Pugh, AIA, AICP, NOMA, LEED AP, Global Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Design Manager, Principal, Gensler - Ronnie Belizaire, FIIDA, RID, Studio Practice Leader, Principal, HKS, Pascale Sablan, FAIA, NOMA, LEED AP, Chief Executive Officer, New York Studio Adjaye Associates, NOMA Global President, 2023-2024 - Joseph Cephas (Moderator), Senior Vice President, Novita Communications - Featured Presentations / Tuesday, June 11, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CDT

Featured Presentation - Diversity in Practice

Progressing from making public statements to enacting practical equity programs is essential in creating a more diverse environment. Novità Senior Vice President Joseph Cephas leads a panel of design leaders as they explore strategies that go beyond the rhetoric to make firms and the projects they produce more inclusive.

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Featured Presentation - How Generative AI is Changing Design

From Dall-E to Midjourney to Sora, a new wave of generative AI tools have arrived to shake up design. Panelists spanning architecture to industrial design will unpack how they’re using gen AI in their practice today, and how they see it impacting the industry within the next few years.

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BIFMA + ACT | Fits Like a Glove: The Perfect Pairing of Textiles and Furniture - Shantel McGowan, VP of Design, Textiles, Momentum Textiles & Wallcovering - Andrea Nelson, Principal Designer | Colors, Materials, and Finishes, Industrial Design Studio, Haworth - Maggie Keilhauer, Marketing Manager, Keilhauer - Deborah Nemeth (Moderator), Principal, Interior Design Discipline Leader, SmithGroup - Featured Presentations / Tuesday, June 11, 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. CDT - Presented by BIFMA, ACT

Featured Presentation - BIFMA + ACT | Fits Like a Glove: The Perfect Pairing of Textiles and Furniture

A moderated discussion among industry textile and furniture trend-setters focusing on textiles’ influential role in furniture product design and performance. These experts will explore textiles’ influential role in furniture product design and performance.

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ASID | 2024 Trends Outlook - Margi Kaminski, Principal, Director of Health Interiors, CannonDesign - Julia Calabrese, Associate Director of Strategy & Design, IA Interior Architects - Leah Bauer, Global Director of Design and Sustainability, Workday - S. Dawn Haynie, Ph.D., Research Fellow, ASID - Khoi Vo (Moderator), CEO, ASID - Featured Presentations / Tuesday, June 11, 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CDT - Presented by American Society of Interior Designers

Featured Presentation - ASID | 2024 Trends Outlook

Hear from Khoi Vo, ASID CEO and leading industry designers, as they discuss the impact of these current trends on commercial design – the hybrid workplace and the desire to encourage connection, cross-specialty and the interconnectedness of sustainability and wellness, adaptive re-use and the repositioning of older buildings, and new strategies in digital marketing given AI algorithms.

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Designing a Better Chicago: A Conversation with 2024 Grantees - Grantees to be announced - Monica Rickert-Bolter (Moderator), Center for Native Futures - Featured Presentations / Wednesday, June 12, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CDT - Presented by Designing a Better Chicago

Featured Presentation - Designing a Better Chicago: A Conversation with 2024 Grantees

Join the new 2024 grant winners as they discuss their work, the impact they are making on Chicago, and lessons they have learned along the way.

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Explore Virtual CEUs - Choose from more than 50 CEU sessions across 13 educational tracks. All CEU sessions will be available on-demand starting June 10 through September 13.

2024 Virtual CEUs

This year’s CEU programming offers virtual online and on demand sessions from an impressive roster of leading industry experts. Registrants can watch each session anytime on demand through September 13.

Connecting the Design Community

NeoCon serves as the hub for the commercial design community, uniting its designers, architects, end-users, manufacturers, dealers, service providers, associations, educators, students and media each year in June. The NeoCon community remains connected year-round online and onsite at THE MART.

April 2024 - Spaces, Community & Happenings at the Industry's Center for Design - Converge | THE MART MAGAZINE - The Inaugural Issue - Showroom Savvy

Converge | THE MART Magazine

We’re excited to announce the inaugural edition of Converge, a magazine-within-a-magazine dedicated to everything happening at THE MART. As Rob Kirkbride puts it, “let's start the conversation about this community, which has had such an incredible impact on our industry and its success." Converge will be published quarterly in officeinsight. Happy reading!

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From the Community - Guest Blog

Did you know that some of the most famous and beloved Chicago buildings including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Public Library, and the Reynolds Club, were designed by Shepley Bulfinch? The national architecture firm is celebrating its 150th anniversary and a rich history of iconic design. Read the full story from Luke Voiland, AIA, Principal and EVP, Practice Strategy.

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DIFFA Chicago Gala: DIFFA Through the Decades

DIFFA Chicago Gala: DIFFA Through the Decades

From our beginnings in the 1980's and as we look into the future of achieving our goal of getting to zero by 2030... Come join us on Saturday, June 8th at 5pm for an amazing evening on the river park at THE MART, kicking off NeoCon!

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Happy (Together) Hour

Happy (Together) Hour - Tuesday, June 11, 5-6:30 PM

Mark your calendars for Tuesday night of NeoCon. Get together with NeoCon Friends and colleagues and enjoy complimentary drinks and live music. Just show your badge!

Revel in Design, IIDA's black-tie event

Revel in Design, IIDA's Black-Tie Event

On Sunday, June 9th, Revel in Design features prominent international interior designers and global design manufacturers gathering to celebrate the design industry. Join us as we honor the winners of the 50th Annual Interior Design Competition and the 31st Annual Will Ching Design Competition.

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Emerging Design: Sensory Experience Lounge

Emerging Design: Sensory Experience Lounge

NeoCon, in partnership with Pratt Institute, will be presenting a new installation spotlighting showcasing the perspectives of student designers curated by Jon Otis, Pratt Institute professor and Principal & Creative Director of Object Agency (OIA). Tours are available!

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SANDOW DESIGN GROUP's First NeoCon

SANDOW DESIGN GROUP's First NeoCon

After a wildly successful inaugural year, First NeoCon is back! Hosted by Interior Design, Metropolis, and THE MART, First NeoCon will welcome a select group of 30 talented design professionals to experience NeoCon for the first time. The program offers a comprehensive itinerary led by industry leaders, including editor-led showroom tours and roundtable discussions.

Overlooking the river, the statues in front of THE MART, attendees lounge on the grass, seating, and under umbrellas.

River Park

Enjoy the outdoors along the Chicago River and connect with colleagues over lunch or drinks from Marshall’s Landing at THE MART's River Park, presented by Haworth.

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Mindful MATERIALS Impact Area: a silhouette reaches upwards, ripples of shadow exuding from where they touch

Mindful MATERIALS Impact Area

As a designer, you wield immense influence over environments, behaviors, and the world we inhabit. Every material you select has a ripple effect - ensure it’s positive. Visit mindful MATERIALS’ activation, made possible by Material Bank, on THE MART's first floor to discover sustainable products and a common framework to evaluate them.

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NeoConversations NeoCon

NeoConversations Podcast

NeoConversations​, offers a​ deep​ dive​ into the world of NeoCon! ​Dynamic h​ost Amy Devers (Clever Podcast) guides listeners through the ins and outs of the event.

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Art on THE MART

Art on THE MART

Launching for NeoCon, ART on THE MART will present a new immersive commission by the British-Nigerian multi-disciplinary artist and designer Yinka Ilori, in partnership with Momentum Textiles + Wallcovering.

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Interior Design's HiP Awards + Party

Interior Design's HiP Awards + Party

Join Interior Design for an unforgettable evening at the 11th annual HiP Awards, where Editor-in-Chief Cindy Allen will recognize excellence and innovation in commercial design at NeoCon. Kicking off the show on Sunday, June 9th at 4:30 pm, winning designers and manufacturers will receive their awards at an exclusive ceremony.

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Climate Positive Solutions Gallery

Climate Positive Solutions Gallery, 7th Floor

New this year at NeoCon, the Climate Positive Solutions Gallery will showcase low-carbon and carbon-negative materials and related technologies that meet the demands of commercial specification without sacrificing design, durability or budgets.

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MRL NeoCon After Hours Party

MRL NeoCon After Hours Party

Don't miss out on the hottest party at NeoCon on Monday, June 10th at 8 pm! Limited quantities of wristbands are available, and they run out FAST.

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Haworth Hospitality on First Floor of THE MART, little seating areas on round rugs surrounded by foliage

Haworth Hospitality

Haworth is sponsoring the lobby at THE MART again this year, designed as a third place, complete with ancillary furnishings that demonstrate the broad range of our portfolio and brands. Inspiration came from the lobby of the new Six Senses hotel in Rome, designed by Patricia Urquiola.

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BIFMA Breakfast: Colleagues talk and drink coffee

BIFMA Breakfast

BIFMA’s annual breakfast celebrates the last day of NeoCon, offering social and networking opportunities accompanied by an industry-forward presentation. This year the presentation will be focused on "Trends in Government Workplace Strategy".

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A women sits in a lush, green SnapCab, a private respite

SnapCab: Space to be You

SnapCab’s pod systems empower designers by giving them back control with unlocked designs. Every workspace is unique, and ensuring every inch is optimized is key to effective space use. Come see the winning design from our “Space To Be You” pod design contest on the 1st floor.

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Toast to Fine Design: a man pours champagne into a flute, while a woman smiles and laughs, her hand outstretched

Toast to Fine Design

The showrooms on floors 6 & 14 offer the most innovative and inspirational selection of products on the market today for both indoor and outdoor design projects. Stop by for a floor-wide champagne reception on Tuesday, June 11th from 3 pm - 5 pm and be invigorated.

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Tuuci Moments of Wonder

Tuuci Moments of Wonder

Experience the dramatic 20’ Ocean Master MEGA MAX Voilare parasol, featuring an intricate design of strength and grace that is as majestic beneath the canopy as it is from afar. Found on the first floor, at the Kinzie/Wells entrance of THE MART.

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